Type-bar pivot.



H. ENDEMANN. TYPE BAR PIVOT. APPLICATION FILED APR.2, 1912.

1,040,658. Patented 001;. s, 1912.

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HUBERT ENDEMANN, 0F VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

TYPE-BAR PIvo'r.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LIIUBERT ENDEMANN,

a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria and Empire of AustriaIIungary, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Type-Bar Pivots, of which the following is a specification.

The invention has for its purpose so to pivot the type-bars to their brackets as to admit of their ready removal and insertion and of their being accurately adjusted to compensate for wearing of the moving part-s. 3

In order to attain the purpose in view, a recess is formed in either cheek of a forked bracket and into this recess is loosely inserted a body which turns toward a conical pivot hole of the bar a tapering portion of circular cross section. Suitable shapes of this loosely inserted body are a ball, a double cone, or a prism or cylinder provided with a conical or spherical end. By means of a pointed screw, or a wedge, or other organ adapted to produce slow and progressive displacement, the body iiiserted in the recess can be so wedged against the conical pivot hole of the bar, that one side of the ball or the conical or spherical point of the otherwise shaped body enters the conical pivot hole, and that thereby the lever is exactly and without clearance pivoted between the said ball or conical point, on the one hand, and the other check of the forked bracket, on the other hand. It is obvious that this construction affords possibility for easily adjusting the type-bars at any given moment and thus keeping the lines straight.

In the drawings, two ways of carrying the invention into practice are shown as follows:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a forkeddetail; Fig. 6 representsa horizontal section the type-bars.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, a is a forked bracket or support, in which a recess 6 is .bored to recei\e a ball '0. For the purpose of simplifying -the manufacture of the forked bracket, the recess 6 is bored through both cheeks, and thereby an oil chamber is provided at the same time, and permanent goodoiling of the hinge-joint secured. A pointed screw (Z of very small pitch is eccentrically directed toward the ball 0, wherefore screwinghome of the screw has for its effect that'the ball ris pressed into the conical pivot hole 1' of the type-bar g, which is in turn wedged against the other check of the fork. The portion of the ball a entering the pivot hole f of the type-bar 9 does the office of a pivot for the latter. In Fig. 3 the bracket ring segment hhas cut into it radial grooves a, which replace the forked brackets and receive the typebars g. Into the lower surface of the said ring segment h is cut a concentric groove 7', the bottom of which is semicircular in crosssection. Into this groove j is inserted a bar is the cross-section of which is shown by Fig. 5, and which forms, together with the bottom of groove y', a passage of circular cross-section into which the balls 0 are inserted. The set-screws (l and m are so arranged upon the bracket ring segment it that each screw is placed between two type-bars As the screws are directed eccentrically toward the balls 0, their screwing home has ance between the type-bars and the parts between which they turn. 4 each type-bar turns around one side of the respective ball. In cases when the comcal pivot holes f of the type-bars g or the balls 0 are worn in consequence of long use, it suffices somewhat to tighten the screw d for restoring the working without clearance and of a portion of the bracket ring segment and for its effect 'that' the balls are pushed tojustment and of doing away with any clear- \Vhile turning,

consequently the straightness of the Written lines. I The screws 01 may be secured in .their position by lock-nuts 0. So long as a ball'c is accurately guided in the recess 1), one

screw 03 will suffice to adjust the ball toward the type-bar '9 But should the recess- 6 become worn owing to long use and a clearance result between the ball and the sides of the recess, a second screw on (Figs. 4 and 6), acting in the'op'posite direction, will be-found useful as an adjustable abutment for the ball.

What I do claim-as myi'nvention, anddesire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. In atype-bar pivot, the combination of i 1 a segment having a recess formed in each purpose specified.

side thereof; a type-bar. to engage in the segment and having a conical recess n the face thereof opposite the segment recess; a

body loosely engaging in said segment recess and having a circular projection. to engage in the conical recess in the type-bar; and ad-' justable means to Wedge said body toward the type bar, substantially as and. for the p 2. In a type-bar pivot, the combination of a segment having a recess formed in each sidethereof; a type-bar to engage in the a body loosely engaging in the segment re-' cess and having a semi-spherical portion to engage in the recess in the type-bar; and a screw having a conical point, 'saidscrew being movable parallel to the type-bite, and the conical point being in contact with the outer end of the body engaging in the recess,

substantially as and for the purpose speci 4c. In atype-bar pivot, the combination'of a segment having a recess formed in each side thereof; a type-bar to engage in said segment having a: conicalp'vot'hole in the face thereof opposite the s! and a screw in the segment having a conical point, said'screw being movable parallel to the plane of the bar, and the'conical point of the screwbeing in contactwith the outer half of the ball, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a support having a slot and a bore transversely to the slot and extending through one side wall of the slot 5.. a type gment recess; a ball loosely engaging in the segment recess;

bar to engage in the slot in the support, said type-bar having a conical recess in one face thereof; and means to'engage in the bore in the support and in the type-bar recess to-relea-sably maintain the type-bar in the support.

nation of, a support having a slot and a bore transversely to the slot; 'a type-bar to en gage in the slot in the support; a member having a spherical surface engaging in the ;bore in the support with the spherlcal surface inengagement with the type-bar and means to engage with said -member in the bore'to maintain it in engagement with the type bar and the latter in the support, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

- 7. In a typewriting machine, the combi-' 6. .In a typewriting machine, the combination of a support having a slot and a bore I transversely of theslot a type bar having a. conical recess'in one side to'engage 1n the slot in the-support; a ball toengage in the bore in the support and in the type-bar recess; and adjustable means to engage in the bore in the support and with the ball to maintain it in the type-bar recess, substantially as and for the purpose specified.-

8. In .a typewriting machine, the combination of a'support having a slot and a bore transversely of the slot; a type-bar having a conical recess in one side thereof and engaging in the slot in the support; a ball engaging in the bore in the support and in the type-bar recess; and aset screw threaded into the support with its end, projecting into the bore in the support to engage with and maintain the ball in the bore and in the type-b-ar recess, substantially as and for 9. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a support having a'slot and a bore transversely to the slot; a type-bar having a conical recess in one side thereof to engage in the slot in the support, a ball to engage in the bore in the support and the type bar recess; and a set screw-threaded into the supthe purpose specified.

port in a plane parallel with the plane ofthe type bar, said set screw having a coniv ca-l end projecting into the bore in the sup port and. engaging with the ball to maintain the latter in the bore in the support and in the type-bar recess, substantially as and for the purposev specified. I

10. In a typewriti'ng machine, the combination of a segment having a plurality f radial slots and a concentric groove in the bottom cutting through said slots type-bars to engage in said slots, each type-bar having a conical recess in one side thereof; a bar to engage in the concentric groove and in conunction with the bottom of the groove conterppsed with the type-barsand each adapt- 'st'ituting a bore circular-in cross section; balls engaging in said bore, said balls ined to engage in the conical recess of one of In witness whereof I have signed this {)he bars;d and set screws threaded 1intodthe specification in presence of two witnesses.

ore, sai screws mving a conica en to L engage with the balls to maintain them in HUBERT ENDEMANN' engagement in the conical type-bar recess, Witnesses:

substantially as and for the purpose speci- VICTOR KERPL,

fied. I AUGUST FUGGER.

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